[R] Again: wget parameters

[Gavin Simpson]

On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 12:22 +0200, [Ricardo Rodriguez] Your XEN ICT Team
wrote:
> Thanks again, Gavin.
> 
> Gavin Simpson wrote:
> > On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 11:43 +0200, [Ricardo Rodriguez] Your XEN ICT Team
> > wrote:
> >> Thanks Gavin.
> >>
> >> Gavin Simpson wrote:
> >>
> >>> Unfortunately, binaries are not available on CRAN for MacOS X and
> >>> Windows, though Prof. Brian Ripley provides a binary for the later - see
> >>> the link on the RCurl page on CRAN:
> >> Installation of the source worked like charm by using R package 
> >> installer after installing bitops.
> >>
> >> Just one question. I get this message after installing RCurl:
> >>
> >> installation of package 'RCurl' had non-zero exit status
> > 
> > Probably that it didn't install properly. Have you tried:
> > 
> > library(RCurl)
> > 
> > I suspect it won't work as it didn't install.
> 
> Well, library(Rcurl) throws no error. It seems to me that Rcurl installs 
> fine. I've even tried to access your zipped file but of course 
> authentication fails!
> 
> > 
> > Next step will be to post the output from R when you do:
> > 
> > install.packages("RCurl")

Sorry, I meant:

install.packages("RCurl", type = "source")

G

> 
> It fails, I suspect this is the expected behavior as there is no RCurl 
> binary at CRAN: package ‘RCurl’ is not available.
> 
> But Package Installer at R 2.11.0 GUI 1.33 Leopard build 32-bit (5582) 
> does the work pretty well: it downloads and compiles the sources and 
> only some warnings and this...
> 
> installation of package 'RCurl' had non-zero exit status
> 
> appears during the process.
> 
> > 
> > as somewhere in amongst that will be reason why installation failed.
> > Note the system reqs. for RCurl:
> > 
> > SystemRequirements:	curl (version 7.14.0 or higher) http://curl.haxx.se
> > 
> > so you need this installed and the development headers for curl
> > available (on Linux this would usually be in a curl-devel package
> > provided your linux distribution, but I don't know where or what this
> > would be on MacOS X.)
> > 
> > You might want to move this to the R-SIG-Mac mailing list as they will
> > be best placed to assist with installing this package from source on
> > your system.
> 
> Thanks. I'll move this thread to R-SIG-Mac mailing list although 
> installation seams to work fine!
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Ricardo
> 

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